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Brickhouse After nine years of laying it all on the line, Boston Militia RB Mia Brickhouse says it's time for to retire. With a new job in California taking her away from the East Coast, Brickhouse capped a career as one of the truly remarkable running backs in women's football by winning a world title with Team USA and leading the Militia the IWFL championship in Texas last weekend. A Militia

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Boston Militia RB Mia Brickhouse running through the DC Divas. The big question after the Boston Militia completely  dominated the Sacramento Sirens 39-7 in Texas to win the IWFL title: Where will Fan Favorite MVP Mia Brickhouse play next year? The Militia's gifted RB has taken a job as an executive with the West Coast Conference, which is  based in San Bruno, California. Brickhouse, a standout

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It's Super Bowl week and the Academy Award nominations have just been announced. So, chickies, time for a pop quiz. Women are:     A) Twice as likely to watch the Oscars as the Super Bowl.     B) Twice as likely to watch the Super Bowl as the Oscars.     C) Care more about the length of Sandra Bullock's gown than the jersey number of the Raven''s Michael Oher'. The answer is "B."  But, then, you

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In two weeks, the International Federation of American Football will announce its selection of the six national teams competing in the first IFAF Womens World Championship, to be held June 26-July 4 in Stockholm Sweden. Women's tackle football is played competitively in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Venezuela and the United States. The USA is certain to have on of

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So, I'm reading a Philadelphia Inquirer clip about how tough the next state budget will be for incoming Republican Governor Chris Christie (many of you might recall I work for outgoing Governor Jon Corzine), when I see a link to the site's most popular features of the week. It turns out to be pictures of "lingerie football" -- 95 of them. Plenty of butt cheeks and cleavage spilling out of the

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Two heavyweights stood toe-to-toe and went blow-for-blow in a knock-down, drag out fight for the IWFL title tonight at North Park University in Chicago.In the end, RB Jessica Springer put her team on her back in OT as the Diamonds drove 52 yards to win a fourth national championship, although it was the team's first in the IWFL. Springer, who ran for all five Dallas TDs and two two-point

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1st Montreal (2:18) Marie-Claude Vincent 8-yard run. Julie Perrault kick. Blitz 7, Fox 02ndMontreal (6:40) Vincent 5-yard run. Kick failed. Blitz 13, Fox-0Clarksville (1:51) G.T. Suttles 25-yard run. Run failed. Blitz 13, Fox 63rdMontreal (11:40) Vincent 25-yard run. Kick failed. Blitz 19, Fox 6Montreal (9:25) Saadia Ashraf 7 yard pass to Georgina Paull. Plerrault kick. Blitz 26, Fox 6

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I n the final analysis, the Dallas Diamonds and the Chicago Force are not such entirely different football teams.Both have defenses that give up TDs about as often as an offensive lineman says no to a donut.Both are well-coached and extraordinarily disciplined.And both rely on smash-mouth offenses built around brick-house 200-pound RBs – the widely acclaimed Jessica Springer for the Diamonds and

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Asked if his offense was a variation of the run-and-shoot, Montreal Blitz head coach John Gibbon said, “Heck no. We’re a shoot and shoot offense. We throw the ball.”The Blitz will be firing with both barrels in the Tier 2 championship game against the run-oriented Clarksville Fox today in Chicago. The game will be the opening act in the IWFL’s championship Saturday with kickoff at 2 p.m. CT. The

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The IWFL held a meet-and-greet for the players on the four teams that will compete in tomorrow's championship games in Chicago. Each player got a photo with the blown-glass football that goes to the league champ (except for the Diamonds, who politely declined so as not to jinx their chances to actually take the trophy home).The teams got a chance to size each other up, hoarf down several bowls of

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Glad to be headed back to the Windy City for what seems like the first time in eons.Of course, the 8 a.m. flight out of Philadelphia was over sold and thunderstorms the night before filled up almost every vacant seat on almost every other flight. We will get there eventually, and after dispensing with a few duties will be happy turn full attention to football -- namely the IWFL championship game

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It is, first of all, remarkable that the Chicago Force is even in the IWFL championship game this weekend.In its two playoff games, the Force has eked out 8-7 wins on fourth-quarter gambles to run for two-point conversions rather than kick a PAT and play things out in OT.Coach Jim Stahl said the first time that he feared the potential for devestation if he put the team's stellar season on the

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Beating the Dallas Diamonds is a seemingly impossible task.Over the past five years only two teams have found a way, the Houston Energy and the So Cal Scorpions. Both have done it twice.The key, of course, is stopping the Diamond's powerful RB Jessica Springer. As big as most DEs and faster than most DBs, the only way to stop her is to wrap up low and pray like hell that two or three teammates

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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The Chicago Force beat the Pittsburgh Passion tonight 8-7, the same score as the previous win over the Detroit Demolition. We here at crack-back were otherwise occupied during the broadcast ... does anybody know if the ending was as dramatic as with Detroit?

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Feeling a bit disrespected by the rest of the league, the unbeaten West Michigan Mayhem traveled to Philadelphia and trampled the top-seeded Phoenix 21-0 tonight to win the NWFA Northern Conference title and earn a berth in the championship game July 26 in Memphis.The game wasn't as competitive as the score might indicate.Philadelphia had a couple of key turnovers, including losing a first half

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IWFL Pittsburgh Passion 7Chicago Force 8Dallas Diamonds 38Seattle Majestics 6NWFA West Michigan Mayhem 21Philadelphia Phoenix 0H-Town Texas Cyclones 34LA Amazons 14

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Dallas Diamonds RB Jessica Springer has been one of the most dominant offensive players in any of the leagues. She has a rare combination of power and speed, which should be clear after the IWFL announced it's bonus prizes yesterday for measurements taken during pre-season.Springer (right) finished third in the league in the 40-yard dash with a time of 4.88 seconds. She also finished third in the

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An e-mail from the IWFL's Chicago Force says the team will be featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric tonight at 6:30 p.m. EDT and possibly again Friday morning on the CBS Morning Show at 7:15 a.m.

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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West Michigan Mayhem 34New York Nemesis 7Columbus Comets 14Philadelphia Phoenix 15H-Town Texas Cyclones 25St. Louis Slam 13Kentucky Karma 0*Los Angeles Amazons 2*forfeit

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In an e-mail sent out from the league on July 4, Catherine Masters answered critics of the forfeit by the Kentucky Karma to the LA Amazons. Here's the full text:You may be proud of the players and we are, too...But, they left the Amazons with a field that was paid for, expenses out of pocket, tickets sold, sponsors sold and tons of television and media planning on coming to the game. What the

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It's outrageous that the Kentucky Karma forfeited a playoff game to the Los Angeles Amazons -- outrageous for the fans and outrageous for the players.But it's also an outrage for those of us who would like to see the sport taken seriously.The Karma's forfeit after hosting and winning a first-round playoff game is yet more confirmation of another "professional" womens football team being nothing

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Each of the past seven years, the Detroit Demolition has played in the league championship game, first in the NWFA and the past two years in the IWFL. They won six of those seven titles.Saturday, the Demo watched its grip slip from the championship trophy.Chicago Force RB Melissa Smith ran for a two-point conversion with less than three minutes to play in a first round IWFL playoff game,

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IWFLPittsburgh Passion 41Orlando Mayhem 6Seattle Majestics 35Corvallis Pride 0Chicago Force 8Detroit Demolition 7Dallas Diamonds 69California Quake 3 NWFA West Michigan Mayhem 31 Minnesota Vixen 7Kentucky Karma 6Pensacola Power 0H-town Texas Cyclones 28Oklahoma City 0Columbus Comets 14Ft. Wayne Flash 7

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Pensacola Power RB LaKeisha Johnson racked up 231 yards on 13 carries last Saturday against the Gulf Coast Herricanes. She scored three TDs. According to NWFA statistical reports, her season rushing total now stands at 2,725 yards on 225 carries with 28 TDs., in eight games.

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A poll up on the WPFL site is asking, "What time of year would you like the WPFL season to happen?" The choice: Continue with the fall schedule and play during football season or move the schedule to spring and relaunch in 2009.Of 420 votes, 52 percent (219) were to play in the fall; the other 48 percent (201) said move to the spring.Given that most of its teams have already fled for other

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The IWFL has set its playoffs and (yawn) we've seen this first round before.The top-seeded Seattle Majestics (8-0) will host the wild card Corvallis Pride (5-3) on June 28, the third game between the two this season. Seattle beat Corvallis twice to win the Pacific Northwest division, including a 16-7 win this weekend. In the other game, the California Quake (8-0) travels to the Dallas Diamonds (8

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In 2006, when injury devestated the Pensacola Power backfield, the coaching staff looked across the line of scrimmage and asked LB LaKeisha Johnson to carry the ball.Since then, Johnson (right) has become the most prolific RB in all of women's football.Her numbers are jaw-dropping.Johnson has rushed for 2,494 yards in seven games this season. She averages 11.8 per carry and has scored 25 TDs. To

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Something interesting is happening with the IWFL playoffs: The teams with the inside tracks represent what almost amounts to the inter-league playoff for which everybody has been clamoring.The Dallas Diamonds are the team to beat in the Western Conference. Fresh out of the WPFL where it won three titles, Dallas is undefeated (7-0) and has won its games by an average of 36 points a game. The

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The amateurish Web site, especially the league standings. Teams aren't listed best record to worst, but instead are presented alphabetically. What exactly is the point of that?

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I played in the first game the Chicago Force ever lost, the 2003 conference championship against the Sacramento Sirens. It was 103-effing-degrees at kickoff. From the first series, the Sirens completely dominated our upstart first-year team from the Midwest.The Force defense had given up five TDs all year. We gave up that many to the Sirens in the first half. What I remember most is that

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Interesting thing: The Massey Ratings (there's a hyper-link over there on the right) have two new teams in both of the spring leagues ranked at the top of their respective standings.The Pittsburgh Passion and the Dallas Diamonds are 1-2 in the IWFL. What's a little squirrely is that the Detroit Demolition are ranked third, ahead of the Chicago Force, despite losing to the Force in the opening

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The Dallas Diamonds and Pittsburgh Passion are making the case this season that the best teams in other leagues are certainly the equal of the top tier in the IWFL.The Diamonds, fresh from the WPFL, whipped the Atlanta Xplosion 37-14 on Saturday. Atlanta has been in a descent from its league championship form in 2006, but nobody would suggest that the Xplosion, even at 0-2, have lost their

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Caught the New Jersey Titans getting thumped by the Philadelphia Phoenix tonight, 40-0 in Northeast Philly.After running through Maine 43-0 in the season opener last week, the Titans looked slow afoot and sloppy in execution. The New Jersey offense didn't get into the red zone all night. Some missed tackles led to a couple of long TDs for the Phoenix and the DBs blew a couple of golden

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It's clear that the IWFL's once dynastic West Coast teams are not the powerhouses they were in previous years. And with the shift of Detroit and Chicago back into the East, the number of elite teams is as small in the West as ever.Still, there will clearly be competition in all of the divisions for playoff spots.The Seattle Majestics look like the team to beat again this year, but Northwest rival

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The 2008 season has begun and it's clear even to a knuckle-headed blogger that things have changed. A look at the IWFL Eastern Conference:Pittsburgh has followed the course of other past NWFA champions and fled to the more competitive IWFL. The Passion also picked up Jen Dulski, a standout LB with the Chicago Force the past two years. Dulski was voted the Force's defensive player of the year in

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The four teams still competing in the IWFL playoffs have a total of nine league championships among them.For those who have been calling for some sort of cross-league playoffs -- I know I have whined for them like a three-year-old in the candy aisle -- the IWFL post-season this year is as close as women's football is ever likely to get to such a thing.The Atlanta Xplosion, Sacramento Sirens or

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Like I told y'all, defense wins championships.The Pittsburgh Passion weren't going to let the Columbus Comets score in the NWFA Championship game. They ended up winning 32-0. Turned out everything after RB Torina Henley's TD in the first quarter was over-kill!Okay, Okay. I was wrong about the game. I thought the Comets defense was tougher. Or maybe I just underestimated the Passion offense (and

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Offense sells tickets, the saying goes, but defense wins championships.Throngs of fans will turn out in Nashville on Saturday night expecing to cheer on the Pittsburgh Passion backfield as it rolls roll through the NWFA championship game. Instead they will likely leave sshocked at a tenacious Columbus Comets defenses brings home the trophy.Pittsburgh's top-ranked offense has been a TD machine all

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The DC Divas are traveling to Atlanta next week for a first round playoff game against the Xplosion because Atlanta (8-0) has given up just seven points this season while DC (8-0) has allowed 39 points.It didn't hurt that the Xplosion won its final two regular season games 2-0 because of forfeits, including a road game against the Miami Fury last week.Theat contest was delayed by what the IWFL

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Portland Shockwave team owner Rebecca Brisson responded to my previous post. Since her team is (was) the most likely to have replaced Kansas City in the playoffs, I thought she deserved to have her say in a post of her own.(The Shockwave, btw, are 6-2, not 5-3 as the previous post said.)Here's Brisson's "two cents:""There is no rift. The operating documents clearly state they have a choice. ...

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Rather than show up to get bitch-slapped by the Detroit Demolition a week from Saturday, the Kansas City Storm is forfeiting its first-round IWFL playoff game on July 14.And, rather than risk losing to a team that was actually worthy of making the playoffs, the Demolition is taking that Saturday off.Detroit is exploiting a loophole in the league's operating documents and refusing to play a game

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The NWFA title game looks to be headed for a showdown between the unbeaten Pittsburgh Passion and last year's runner-up Oklahoma City Lightning.The Passion (10-0) next week host the Cleveland Fusion (8-2), a team it has twice beaten in the regular season, for the Northern Conference championship. The Fusion beat the top-seeded Mass Mutiny 12-7, but have a real challenge in a third game of the

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The DC Divas travel to Atlanta to take on the defending IWFL champion Xplosion in a first-round match pitting the two best teams in the East. The Divas moved to the IWFL after storming through the NWFA last year en route to its first league championsip. The road to Roswell goes through Atlanta, and the Divas are determined.The New York Sharks travel to New Hampshire to take on the Freedom in the

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The NWFA's midwest teams hit the road tomorrow and three of the four could conceivably score upset victories on the road.The rundown:Cleveland Fusion (7-2) at Mass Mutiny (8-0)The Fusion beat the Connecticut Crush 53-0 in week one of the playoffs, rolling up more than 320 rushing yards and seeing QB Mary Dietrick complete nine of 12 passes for 180 yards. The Mutiny twice beat the Crush during the

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The last spots in the IWFL playoffs come down to games in the final week of the regular season, with teams in the both the Eastern and Western Conferences hoping to extend their seasons beyond June.In the West, the Santa Rosa Scorchers (5-2) must beat the Sacramento Sirens (6-1) to win the Pacific Southwest Division and make the playoffs.The teams have split two previous games this year, so if

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The Redding Rage has not scored a single touchdown this year, which explains why it has not won a single game.It would seem to be impossible to have a worse season, though over the past four seasons in the IWFL the Rage has had some pretty bad ones. The team has struggled to win just five games in those four years.There are a lot of reasons for the Rage's record of futility. Based in Redding,

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On paper, the Chattanooga Locomotion look unbeatable.The Loco are 8-0 and seeded #1 in the NWFA Southern Conference playoffs. Chattanooga has given up just two TDs all season, while racking up 472 points. That's an average of 59 points a game! Loco RB Schandra Loveless (right) has rushed for 1,567 yards and 35 TDs this season. No other running back in either league comes close. Loveless, the Loco

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No team got done as dirty in the playoffs as the St. Louis Slam.First the Slam had to take on the unknown -- and as it turns out, damn good -- Phoenix Prowlers. Now, they have to travel to Oklahoma City to face the Lightning, again. This game should be for the Southern Conference title, because who ever wins it will surely end up in Nashville playing for the championship.The match-up features two

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The Detroit Demolition fumbled away a chance to win late in the game and the DC Divas gamely capitalized to earn a first ever victory over the Demolition. With little more than three minutes left in the game, Detroit faced a 4th and 3 on their own 37 yard line trailing 24-22. After a timeout, the Demolition decided to go for the first down. As QB Kim Grodus bent over center and started barking

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Looking forward to a real battle Saturday between two of the best-coached, best-organized teams in women's football.I don't think the Diva's defense, as good as it is, can contain the Demolition. However, DC is highly motivated for a chance to play Detroit, the only team that has beaten the Divas going back three seasons.It promises to be a great game, maybe even a preview of the IWFL

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Has anyone else noticed that the profiles of all four players spotlighted on the NWFA's Web site all make some sort of reference to the players being wives and/or mothers?There's not a lez-bo in the bunch.Is this coincidence? I think not.I first noticed the trend last year, when the NWFA clearly made an effort to focus on the married and/or engaged players among its teams. Never once have I seen

Cosmohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06665982510086683426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22100260.post-5821288544421795982007-05-26T23:31:00.000-04:002007-05-26T23:53:24.502-04:00

Catherine Masters strikes again.Not content to allow the NWFA championship game to stand on its own as a contest showcasing the league's best football teams, Masters is turning the July 21 game into a three-ring circus with her "Football Pallooza," a lame play on the name of an oh-so-worn-out music festival.Okay, fine. Bring the carnival to Tennessee. Promote the sideshows instead of the main

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The first IWFL Massey rankings are out tonight, with the DC Divas atop the pile.The Seattle Majestics are number two, with the league's top-rated defense. The Majestics (4-0) have been impressive in the Pacific Northwest, which is traditionally a weak division. The defending champion Atlanta Xplosion are third after winning their first three games. The Xplosion (3-0) are just ahead of the #4

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The defending IWFL champion Atlanta Xplosion had to come from behind on their home turf in the fourth quarter yesterday to beat the Orlando Mayhem, 14-7.It was an impressive showing by the Mayhem (3-1). Orlando had won its first three games, piling up 135-13 point differential against lesser competition. The question was whether the Mayhem, led by veteran QB Kahs Sky-Deer (photo, above), are for

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The newest Massey ratings for the NWFA has boosted the Pensacola Power (4-0) to #2 and dropped the Pittsburgh Passion (4-0) to #6 in its rankings this week.In fact, Massey has Southern Conference teams in the five top spots,.I find that incredible; nothing more than a statistical glitch early in the season that actually demonstrates the greater parity among Northern Conference teams and allows

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Halfway through its schedule, the Pittsburgh Passion has asserted itself as a legitimate contender for the NWFA title.The Passion ran its record to 4-0 on Saturday, spanking the Philadelphia Phoenix 53-7 on the strength of 157 yards and 4 TDs from RB Torina Henley, who has piled up 501 yards so far this season. The Passion next travel to the Cleveland Fusion for a rematch of the season opener in

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So, the Intensity beat a team called the Boston Women's Football Club on Saturday. Of course, that begs the question: What happened with the Bay State Warriors?The Warriors were a team on the move. Last year Bay State seemed ready to challenge the New York Sharks for supremacy in the Northeast. Now it looks as if the Warriors have fractured. What gives?Inquiries to the team GM went unanswered.

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So nice to visit the IWFL Web site yesterday and see those links to game info, even if it does reward my tendency to whine.By the way, the Cape Fear Thunder did beat the Delaware Griffins 6-0, though the Thunder didn't provide any details of what sounds like the toughest match up of opening day.

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My first job out of college was as a sports writer at a newspaper in Salem, Oregon. Among the great traditions was Friday night high school football.The writers, usually two of us, watched a game live, came back to the office and pounded out a 16-inch story with a complete box score. Between the raindrops, we helped field calls and take facsimilies with the raw statistical data for the games we

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Don't be fooled by the score.New York was lucky to escape Miami with a win on opening night in the IWFL, as the Fury went into a fourth-quarter melt-down and gave up three unanswered TDs to the Sharks.Trailing by a single touchdown at 28-21 early in the fourth, Miami QB Anonka Dixon hit WR Kentrel Hill with a 64-yard bomb for a TD to bring the Fury within one point of the Sharks, 28-27. Miami

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Ouch!Think the Divas aren't ready to make a mark on the IWFL? Looks like they proved how wide the margin is between an NWFA champion and a WPFL playoff qualifier.Bring on the Sharks.

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Eighty-nine.That's the average high temperature in Atlanta on Aug. 11.That's the average percentage of humidity in Atlanta on Aug. 11.What that feels like: Swimming in a bowl of hot Cream of Wheat.The IWFL announced today that the league championship game for 2007 will be held four months from now, on Saturday, Aug. 11, at Roswell High School. It will be hosted by the defending IWFL champion

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Seeing now that the DC Divas have jumped to the IWFL after mowing down the NWFA this spring, it makes me wonder how much longer three women's leagues will survive -- and whether that matters.Clearly, the WPFL is on the verge of collapse, even after the fine championship game it played last night. There are no teams in the league who can compete with Dallas or Houston. And with so few teams spread

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While the WPFL standings may be unclear, the playoff picture isn't.It appears as though New England, Empire State, Dallas and Houston may receive forfeit wins against the various teams that were originally scheduled but did not play all or any of their games - Albany and Tulsa. These "mystery wins" aren't on the Scores page, but are showing up on the front page in the win-loss columns

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IWFL chief Kezia Disney e-mailed to clear up a few details about a possible game between the Detroit Demolition and the Dallas Diamonds. Here's what she said:First, no one was ever threatened with anything. We don’t operate that way.The Demolition was contacted by Ms. Berndt with her challenge to play. Then the Demolition contacted us to inform us of the challenge. We discussed the league rules

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That is what it took for the DC Divas to reach the NWFA championship and win it. They have come a long ways from their very first game in 2001 losing to Phili 40-0 and finishing that season 3-4. In that time the Divas have cumulated over 60 alumni players, coaches and owners with many of them on hand to witness this event in Pittsburgh. You could not ask for better, no wind, no rain, and no

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Atlanta 21, Detroit 14.I think a LOT of people weren't expecting that!Saturday night in Long Beach CA, the Eastern Conference champs Atlanta Xplosion took on the Western Conference winners Detroit Demolition. Detroit, having squashed the competition four years in a row in the NWFL/NWFA, brought their awesome winning streak to the IWFL and kept up their winning ways, going undefeated in the 2006

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Plans for a showdown between the WPFL Dallas Diamonds and the IWFL Detroit Demolition were scratched two weeks ago, when IWFL executives intervened and threatened to boot the Demolition out of the league if they played in the game.Dallas owner Dawn Berndt and Detroit owner Mitch Rosen met in Atlanta the weekend that the Demolition were in town to play the Xplosion and struck a tentative deal to

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For one reason or another, the New England Intensity is playing coy with some of its roster additions late in the pre-season.The season preview on the team's Web site touted "13 returning players and 13 veterans with WPFL experience." Among those 13 are three former standouts with the IWFL New York Sharks: QB Val Halesworth; LB/RB Missy Marmorale and DB/WR Val "Peanut" Monaco. They were clearly

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Norm Killion already has one WPFL championship ring with the Northern Ice. One day soon he may get a second with the Wisconsin Wolves, or at least that's the buzz around the league as it opens its eighth season."Who put the target on our backs?" Killion asks with a laugh. "We haven't even played a game yet."The short answer, coach: Reputation.Wisconsin will play its first game in franchise

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The NWFA has been headed all year toward a showdown in Pittsburgh between it's marquee teams, the Oklahoma City Lightning (9-0) and the DC Divas (9-0).Both teams have one final test on Saturday, though.DC will face the deceptively tough Columbus Comets (7-3) in a game the Divas are expected to win in a walk. But Oklahoma City must face the Mass Mutiny (8-1) in a game that presents a much tougher

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For one play, the New York Sharks looked like world beaters.RB Yumi Warner broke loose on the first play from scrimmage and zipped 70-yards through the Atlanta Xplosion defense, putting New York ahead 7-0 just 42 seconds into the IWFL Eastern Conference championship.But the next 59 minutes belonged to Atlanta. The Xplosion battered the Sharks on both sides of the ball Saturday afternoon to win

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Oklahoma City RB Iliana Calderon, the NWFA's leading rusher, will return to the field for next week's playoff game against the Mass Mutiny after missing the Lightning's first-round playoff win at home against the Cleveland Fusion because of "contact" with a game official during the Lightning's final ious regular season game.Claderon "received a one game suspension due to a controversial penalty

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The Detroit Demolition joined the IWFL this year after a front-office falling out with the NWFA. And we should all be kissing Catherine Masters' flabby backside for chasing them out.Whether she knew it or not, and doubtful she did, Masters was doing the best thing she could have ever done for women's football.No one in the NWFA was close to beating Detroit. The DC Divas had ideas, but fell short.

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The playoff action heated up this weekend in both the IWFL and NWFA. Both league had their quarterfinal rounds Saturday for a fight for the final four within each league. Starting with the NWFA, with only one lower seed winning in last week’s first round, only Columbus was on the road for a second away playoff game. Columbus traveled to Pensacola, the defending southern conference champs, as a

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Lawmakers in New Jersey are trying to shut down state government to force a penny increase in the sales tax. It's made working in Trenton much more entertaining. The family is down the Shore and I'm putting in 14 hours a day, but the trade-off is getting to wade into all manner of political lunacy.Then, because I haven't had enough ridiculous posturing and blatant self-promotion, I came home and

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After losing its first two games of the season, Sacramento found a backdoor into the IWFL playoffs. And it's a good thing, too, because the Sirens may be the best team in the West.Since losing to Atlanta and Seattle, the Sirens have outscored opponents 257-59. What changed? The Sirens put Chantelle Powers back in the QB slot full-time and turned Amy Williams lose from the RB spot. The change

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First off, I don't know for dead-certain that Austin is not playoff eligible. I was told they weren't and when the NWFA didn't seed them fourth after St. Louis this week, I went blithely forward in my assumption.Anyone who knows for certain, please spread the knowledge. I would try to contact the NWFA front offices, but they are not inclined to respond to my inquiries (though the folks over at

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The NWFA has released most of the seedings for its whack-o playoff schedule.The teams play in their conference for the first round, but then start playing cross-conference -- for the first time all year -- in the second round. It's an unusual arrangement. Okay, it's completely idiotic.Here's the rundown:The 8-0 D.C. Divas and 7-1 Mass Mutiny are the top seeds in the Northern Conference and get

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The IWFL champions three years running, the Sacramento Sirens now find themselves about to be shut out of the playoffs altogether.The Sirens have to root for the 4-3 Corvallis Pride to upset the 6-1 Santa Rosa Scorchers.That's not likely. The Pride's four wins this year have come against Eugene and Redding, teams that are a combined 2-12. And the Scorchers have it all on the line.If Corvallis

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Key games in both the IWFL and the NWFA on Saturday will go a long way to cutting down the field of playoff contenders, and a few of the losing teams might just find themselves out of contention altogether.In the IWFL Eastern Conference, the New York Sharks, Bay State Warriors, Atlanta Xplosion and Miami Fury all stand at 5-0. It would be hard to imagine any other team taking away their playoff

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This is an idea worth considering in all of the leagues:The Connecticut Intersholastic Athletic Conference has instituted a "score management" policy to stop football teams from running up the score. If a team wins by more than 50, the coach is suspended for the next game. When the rule takes effect this fall, Connecticut will be the only state with such a rule for football.Mercy or slaughter

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The IWFL playoffs are coming together at the halfway point in the season. The IWFL has a 4 team per conference playoff system (3 divisional winners and one wildcard).Portland seems to own their division, but they still must face 2 3-1 teams in Corvallis and Santa Rosa, both who have playoff aspirations also. The last week of the season, Corvallis and Santa Rosa must also face each other. It

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With 3 weeks in the season to play, the playoff picture in the NWFA is coming more into focus. There are 8 teams in the southern and northern conference with a real playoff shot.In the Northern conference, 3 losses and you are out. They playoffs will consist of 4 divisional winners and 2 wildcards. There is a possibility that a team with 2 losses will not make it in. Something Pittsburgh is all

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In the end, the Detroit Demolition’s 19-0 victory over the Chicago Force doesn’t really say all that much about the superiority of one league over another.The Demolition (2-0) ran its unbeaten streak to 44 games, bullying Chicago (2-1) in the trenches and controlling the line of scrimmage on a gray Saturday afternoon.Detroit’s starting RB Aisha Brown was knocked out of the game with an ankle

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It may be early, but not too early to consider what the IWFL playoffs will look like without the Sacramento Sirens.The Sirens are 0-2 following a last-second loss Saturday night to the Seattle Majestics. They face a vastly improved Santa Rosa team on the road this Saturday. A loss to the Scorchers (1-0) would drop the Sirens to 0-3, and lock them out of the playoff chase.As it stands now, the

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Somewhere, tucked away in the archives of an Oregon newspaper, there is a photograph of the precise moment when Molly Rogers' life changed.Rogers has never seen it. She never wants to.Her eyes don't need to confirm what her heart told her as soon as Rogers, a 5-4, 145 pound CB for the Seattle Majestics, hit 5-9, 250 pound Corvallis Pride FB Michelle Derry and crumpled to the turf at Linn-Benton

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What if you got in your car, drove 2.5 hours across three states to see a football game. What if, when you got there, you found out it was canceled because there was no playable field. And what if no one bothered to post it on any of the Web sites -- let alone figure out there was a problem before opening week.There are good reasons to postpone or cancel football games. Fan or player safety, for

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For the D.C. Divas, there is one acceptable outcome to the 2006 season -- an NWFA championship."Nothing less will do," coach Ezra Cooper says.The Divas took the first step toward the title on a rain-soaked Saturday night with a 13-6 win over the Baltimore Burn in Landover, Md. The Burn had an opportunity to win the game in the 4th quarter when the Divas turned the ball over on downs at the 8-yard

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The NWFA just can't seem to inject enough faux glamor into women's football. First it was football players stripped to their shoulder pads, blonde hair cascading down tan and brawny shoulders. Then it was "Chic Sports." Get it? Girls. Cool. Chic(ks). Giggle. Giggle. Teehee.League CEO Catherine Masters' latest brainchild is a new, post-season awards gala called the WHAMMYS.Never mind that WHAMMY

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For three years, Julie Wicher dominated the IWFL as the league's premiere RB, piling up 1,100-plus yards of rushing in three consecutive seasons for the Sacramento Sirens. But a new career goal to become a firefighter and an ever-increasing number of injuries pushed Wicher to retire. She says she knew it was time to hang them up after last year's championship game.Wicher now finds she had much

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A fter weeks of super-secret, back-room negotiations, the three major women’s football leagues are close to an agreement on a playoff format that would produce one undisputed women’s championship football team as early as 2007.Player representatives from one of the leagues as well as sources in the two others confirmed the talks were ongoing.“Really, the only thing holding back a deal is finding

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